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Google's PowerPoint viewer goes live

webware.com — Gmail users who get Microsoft PowerPoint attachments in their in-boxes can now view them without having PowerPoint installed on their machines. Google appears to have flipped the switch to allow this feature as of last night. We originally reported on this last month, although at that time it appeared that only a handful of accounts had access. Thi

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5urr3al5am, on 10/11/2007, -5/+28this sort of innovation really drives competition and ultimately creates a better cheaper product...

I really wonder what microsoft must be thinking
- nullx42, on 10/11/2007, -22/+6I bet their thinking "lets encrypt all out .ppts and .docs next office release"
  Way for M$ to fight back with a child like play of not sharing its toys
- whataboutdave, on 10/11/2007, -12/+53That's a trick question. Microsoft doesn't think.
- SpikeX, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15"Conversion failed. Document is unreadable and possibly corrupted" says Google.
  
  I guess it's not totally "live" yet, that or it can't handle Office '07 stuff.
- Rekzai, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Can we have a demo ???
  
  For all of us that don't want to send a ppt to ourselves or don't have any friends that will send one to us.
- Avalontor, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Microsoft releases their own PowerPoint viewer free of charge. and why would Microsoft care at all, it's their format you are viewing. Don't you think they would want everyone viewing their product instead of a competitors. Think Acrobat Reader.
- clarkembree, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I noticed it on mine on Sunday. They just didn't announce it in "New Features" until yesterday
- rpgmaker, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2"I really wonder what microsoft must be thinking"
  
  How to keep up the 'catch up' game.
- crazybugger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3When can we expect a Google OS?
  
  Idea - How about google purchasing Apple?
  Windows can be dumped forever.
- cpbrown, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I'm in UK and it's not showing up yet, anyone else the same?
- jeepnut24, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1They are probably thinking, "Hey we also have a light weight free PP viewer too."
- jeepnut24, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Link for the lazy...
  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485&displaylang=en
ThinkBox, on 10/11/2007, -4/+29http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Gmail_Rolls_Out_PowerPoint_Preview

This article is a dupe, but kevin rose dugg this, so Ill bet it will get to the front page... hmmmm
- nullx42, on 10/11/2007, -5/+25Everything rose touches turns to front page material.
- FiP0, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2good call.
- Archeologist, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6This isn't even new (at least to me). I've already used this 2 weeks ago when I got a powerpoint in my mail. Can anyone else confirm this? (or am I just crazy)
- xruntime, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5You probably clicked view as html...
- jeduan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I can confirm that, I was really confused as I had been using that feature for a while
- Mike89, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I've also had it for atleast a week or so. Well, 5 days ago is the first time I recieved a PPT attachment for ages.
ChristBehemoth, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Hmm .. this one had to come up!
twrife, on 10/11/2007, -8/+14Forget the apps, bring out an OS already.
- EvolvedAnt, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10Why should Google make an OS? They are a search and advertisement company with a few interesting web apps like google maps and spreadsheet. They have nothing to do with designing an operating system. And there are plenty of alternative Operating Systems out there already. Google could care less to compete on an OS, after all, websites are OS independent. I think the entire concept of Google making an OS is more the want of Google fanboys to see Microsoft get owned, and less of an intelligent and well thought out idea.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I can see the point
  and the only reason the web apps are there
  are more then likely to drive traffic for advertisements
  and create content to search through
- twrife, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I suppose operating system was a bad term to use.
  I was thinking of using a gmail account along the same lines as the site eyeos.
  I would use it.
Dested, on 10/11/2007, -6/+9For the love of god, someone mail me a pps!
- BikerPhil, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0It only works with PPT file extension.
UndeadOverlord, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8this has been up for some time, we were doing presentations in my physics class and so many people had powerpoints on their gmails and I noticed the view as slideshow option on all of them and that was like 2-3 weeks ago
jcardinal, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1I'm not sure that google is doing the right thing. More and more companies are getting away from the presentation phenom and having people explain their ideas instead of showing them onscreen with tacky animation.
- adc86, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Having a graphic to aid in explanation never going to die. I think what you're referring to is the product of incompetent "computers" teachers "teaching" Powerpoint to 6th graders.
MikeDuprey, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Very nice, however, those of us using Safari will still have to wait until Google fully supports the browser...as of right now, you'll have to use Camino, Firefox, etc. on a mac to use this slick new feature.
- PJBonoVox, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Or just get a decent PC instead of a fashion accessory?
kelchm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Doesn't work with 07?

Bad Google.
- a7knight, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2i just tried it with an 07 powerpoint ... it works. it looks like *****, but it works.
- Memnochxx, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1I tried it with a pptx (2007) and saw no link other than the download link.
- whiskeymb, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1even 2003 format files made with 2007 don't work. It doesn't even try with the pptx format...
WaterMedia, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6Doesn't work on Safari...but what is new there? :D
kevth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Does it go full screen?
sherbetboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4weird, I've had this feature for literally months, i remember in the winter i did a history PowerPoint and i had the option to view in gmail.
rstorm186, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1so if i dont have powerpoint i can just email the files to myself at gmail and voila im golden
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